Some day the MPAA will invent an almost invisible watermark for DVDs that will be on every frame of the movie. This watermark will be a serial number unique to that DVD. The watermark also move so that it won't be easy to cover up or mask. The only sure fire way to get rid of this watermark would be to rescale the movie to such a size that people who really want to enjoy it would be able to.

That'll be fun, won't it?

First of all, you need to subscribe to Slashdot. You need this because you have to be able to read messages in The Mysterious Future.

Second, you need an atomic clock. If not, you'll fail the first time, but from then on, it'll work. Just pay very close attention to the time.

Steps:

Some of you are confused by my mirror. It's simple. I'm trying to make a buck. But I am trying to also understand the dynamics behind the interesting geek demographic.

See, most of you aren't actually geeks. I have embedded a lot of javascript in the mirrors (once I've retired them) to help me figure out which of you are geeks and which of you are just regular people who are fascinated with us.

I went to a coffee shop last night with a friend. There were three other people with laptops besides us. Out of the five laptops at the coffee shop, four were Apple TiBooks of one model or another. I don't know if that parallels any real world market-share statistics, but it's pretty impressive.

Chewbacca acts as midwife to Natalie Portman's Padmé when she gives birth to twins Luke and Leia. We hope he washes his paws first.

I just got my server co-located, and I've been having some fun with it. Everyone who's had a web server or virtual host with access logs have seen those annoying little worms floating around. One of the most common is default.ida, or the Code Red Worm. Other common ones are requests for cmd.exe and such. You really notice them when your site has low traffic like mine.

The next step in user interfaces should include a clipboard on your person in the form of a ring, watch, bracelet, or whatever. The idea is that you touch a metal plate on one computer that copies information to your personal clipboard. Then, you touch a metal plate on another computer to copy the information back out.

Or, you could shake hands with someone with the same setup, and the information is transferred to them so they can take it to another computer.

About them Slashdot Trolls,
they don't make no sense!
Goin' on Slashdot,
postin' weird comments.
About them Slashdot Trolls,
are they on a team?
Postin' first is their thing,
what an odd meme?
Look at all them Slashdot Trolls,
what a waste of bits?
Most are modded down it's true,
what a good riddance.
How to be a Slashdot Troll,
don't need a ticket,
think up something really weird,
then anonymously post it.

I have tried to get a matching answer, and in turn get digested, for this brilliant parody if the Halting Problem. You tell me what's wrong (oh boy am I going to regret this):

Oh great and powerful Oracle, who knew Alan Turing personally...and gave him pointers...

Is there ever going to be an end to the Woodchuck problem? I'm concerned because I ran across a proof that implies some disturbing results.

On my way to the office, I got pulled over today by a police officer on a motor cycle. He told me that he saw me driving without wearing my seat belt. There's a fairly new law in California that allows police officers to pull you over just for that. It used to be that they had to have another reason like a tail light or tire pressure, but not any more.

He saw me look down my fastened seat belt, to which he commented, "you must have fastened it when I pulled you over."

Soon after September 11th, 2001 there was a huge surge of flag waving. From actual flags on people's houses to stickers on people's cars, it seemed quite patriotic.

After a few months, the flags began to wear and tear. After a while, we could walk down any neighborhood and find at least one flag. Take a closer look and we would likely see that it's faded or torn. Walk around any parking lot, there's likely at least one of those cheesy car flags. It's also completely destroyed.

Neo never left the Matrix. He thinks he did, and so does every person who's mind has been freed, and Zion. They are all in the "Blue Matrix."

So, there's a Green Matrix, a Blue Matrix, and probably a Red Matrix.

The Green Matrix holds the masses. This is where the 99% live. They accept it, even if only on an unconscious level.